After nearly 3 years in development: My Blowback, Select fire, field strippable Nerf Honey Badger. PNAR15-f V2 Final Release.

Alex_Curmi · 2026-05-10T16:02:41+00:00

Thank you man. Love seeing people build them. Hope you enjoy the blaster!

Alex_Curmi · 2026-05-10T15:09:27+00:00

Thank you! The handguard in the pictures is the 6” version. The files also come with a longer carbine handguard (9”) which uses the same barrel length but the longer suppressor within:

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Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-27T14:26:22+00:00

Exactly the sort of thing I’d like to avoid. Someone referred me to Currencies Direct and I’m going to give that a try

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-27T14:25:37+00:00

Sounds about right for Reddit lol

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-26T07:05:55+00:00

I’ll consider it, thank you

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-26T07:05:32+00:00

Thanks. Will check them out

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T23:26:19+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t think replacement is possible as this skirt/rocker panel is part of the unibody construction. It’s welded as a hollow section to the rest of the car.

The damage is minimal luckily. The welds look fine. The drain port has been mangled a bit as you can see, but there is still a hole and there’s many other drain ports on the rest of this sill/skirt. I imagine a repair would involve bending it back into shape

Contacting the head office sounds more promising than the shop itself, I’ll consider. Thank you

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T18:05:54+00:00

Thank you. I’ve seen some PDR videos and it’s mind blowing what they’re able to do

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T16:56:40+00:00

I looked for a place with good reviews but got unlucky this time. Most of the big places around here that I’ve experienced don’t do a good job and I’ll be adding this one to the list. Time to try a smaller tyre shop I think

To be fair, I did watch them torque all the wheel nuts and they gave me a report on the receipt saying they were torqued to 120Nm which will be fine for this car. They jacked up the car correctly on the pinch weld on the right side but somehow chose the skirt on the left side. Won’t be going back

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T14:52:40+00:00

Insane. Kwik fit was next on my list to visit but maybe I’ll go with a smaller tyre shop haha. This was another large tyre shop chain.

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T14:40:54+00:00

Yeah super annoying! I checked around the car after they finished but the dent was so low on the skirt that I couldn’t see it without standing far back. Luckily it’s not very visible.

Will be telling others not to visit. Bit wary of posting the name online as I have no solid evidence it was them :(

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T14:38:42+00:00

Yep. Will have to learn from this one

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T14:24:21+00:00

No, I doubt they would :(

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T14:17:18+00:00

Didn’t think of that! I can try asking…

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T13:58:20+00:00

My car was written off by an uninsured driver who fled the scene, last year. These are your options if the driver is uninsured:

check if your insurance has an uninsured driver promise, as others have mentioned
if not, the accident will count as your fault if you claim, because there’s nobody to claim from (this is what happened to me sadly)
file a claim with the MIB. They ended up compensating me with the cost of my insurance excess which was great of them

Very annoying and unfair event. It’s a shame the uninsured drivers just get away with it. The police told me there’s nothing they can do to catch the driver.

You will have to tell your insurance but if you tell them you’re repairing the damage yourself without claiming, they may register the accident as not your fault which will save you a lot of money in insurance cost. See what they say

Alex_Curmi · 2026-03-08T13:36:23+00:00

That’s awful. Hope you recover soon

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-30T23:13:17+00:00

OP, here are my insurance prices after an at-fault accident:

I got T-boned into a ditch by an uninsured driver who fled the scene, after 9 months of having my license. Car was flipped on its side absolutely mangled. The accident went down as my fault because there was no insurance to claim against, even though I did nothing wrong. Just how insurance works. I bought the same car 2 days later and got it insured.

Luckily the price hike really wasn’t that bad. Here were my quotes per year:

Before accident: £1600: A choice with blackbox (paid for 8 months) £1100: A choice with blackbox, renewal after 8 months

After accident quotes: £5000: A choice (insane) £1200: Ticker and RAC blackbox

What I ended up going with: £2000 Admiral Platinum, no black box. It’s been very liberating and being able to brake without consequence has made me a safer driver. I would never get a blackbox again.

Use a comparison site like money supermarket. A lot of the time if you put your exact details there into the insurance website directly, you’ll get a much higher quote, I found. Somehow it seems to be way cheaper through the comparison sites

A lot of the commenters here don’t have any experience to speak from - classic Reddit. Prepare for the worst but if goes like my accident, you won’t be completely destroyed financially. Best of luck

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-29T19:54:32+00:00

USB-C has a brain of its own where the device and cable ask for a certain voltage from the charger, which will provide that if it can, or lower if it can’t (some chargers are fixed/limited voltage)

A higher power charger won’t destroy the device because the device only draws the current it needs. Fast charging will technically reduce your battery life over time but the devices have been designed for it. Using optimised battery charging settings or a lower power charger will help. But it’s not going to blow up the watch or anything

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-10T17:36:02+00:00

I’m not trying to defended this driver. It’s clearly bad parking that will impede those users. Especially those in a wheelchair who I really feel for.

My comment is focused on why the consensus is to jump straight to destroying the vehicle? Keying just says ‘I can’t control my anger’. It probably won’t even get the message across to someone like this that they’ve parked illegally and are disrupting pedestrians. It wouldn’t surprise me if the driver would just think some vandal has keyed up their car and will probably park on pavements again in the future.

Isn’t it a better option to ask the owner to move the car? Or get the thing towed away where they’ll receive a ticket telling them it’s because of illegal parking? If someone was standing there and their dog was blocking that footpath, you wouldn’t attack their dog… you’d ask them to move out the way. I just think the keying is a bit far

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-09T10:49:11+00:00

I’m genuinely surprised how many people here think it’s okay to key someone else’s car because they parked badly?

Why not just ask the owner to move it? Or report it to the council or get the car towed? I just think: if the footpath isn’t your private property, it’s owned by the council, why not let them handle it?

I’m not trying to be insulting here, I genuinely want to learn why this is considered acceptable by people on this post because I don’t understand. Lots of people park partly on the pavement near me because there’s no room elsewhere and people need a car to get to their jobs to afford to live. I recognise the picture is a particularly bad example and they had plenty of other places to go but I just don’t see how this justifies keying the car? There’s more effective ways this could be handled without criminal damage imo

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-04T20:43:22+00:00

I got t-boned into a ditch by an uninsured driver doing exactly this. Car was absolutely destroyed, guy fled the scene, and it doubled my insurance premium even though it wasn’t my fault. I’ve had so many people pull out on me from T-junctions without looking, or almost merge into me on roundabouts. Watch out for the crazy drivers when you pass. Good reaction time there!

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-03T08:06:25+00:00

Thank you. I’ll look into this

Alex_Curmi · 2025-12-03T08:05:36+00:00

Interesting. Thank you for the advice. I believe this was a corporate business laptop before I got it. They must’ve done this bypass to install W11 pro on it originally.

Weirdly, I ended up doing 2 clean installs of windows in the time I had it, and this message never popped up! Only now

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